TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3575, 31 July 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

;Thorp is an old • a yintf that pliysi* flans are a class of,men :whu pour drugs, of which the)' know litfloAr,. juto bodies . of ,-wliioh they ■knoirjb less Tliisis botli true and-liri-j rue st.the,samevtimely;There arc • v good and poor lawyers', and good and poor doctors. Tho'trouble with; these medical: gentlemen as a profession is that*tliey aro clannish, and apt-to be" ' conceited. •,They don't like to be beaten at their oiru. trade 'by;ontsidera who : ' have,never studiedVmetlioine.. -Thoy therofore' fay, 'by', their frequent: failures, the penalty of refusing inatruc-' .tiou nnioss tho teacher bears tlieir own " Hall Mark.", . -V' ; ' An eminent physician—Dr Brown* Sequard, of Paris-slates the fact ' • accurately when he says.!, medi. i '•<?- cal profession are so ;hound .up in their seltconfidonco and' conceit' that they allow the diamond' truths of science be picked up by potions entirely outside their ranks.' 1 We ; girivS ai, most.' interesting i: incident,« whicnr' llustrates this important tmdi. The steamship Concordia" oft the Donaldson Lino,' sailed from Glasw for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard, Wade of Glasgow, Ho had aiiretnati For fourteen years oil various ships sailAmerica, China" and Jndia. Ho hadrhorno the hard 'and exhausting . ■ labour,rand had betft healthy and/;} strong.- On tho trip we now name began for the first time to feel weak and f ill. - Bis appetite failed and ho fluttered j from.drowsiness j heartburn, a bad tasto i.; iu the mouth, and coatiyGoe&a and s . lrrcyularity of .the boivela, Sometimes when at work lie had attacks of giddiness hut supposed it : to bo caused by the heat of the lire-room. Quito often ha was siok and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in-the head,' Later during, the passage ho grew, worse,; andtho- ship, reached Halifax ho was placei in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship, sailed awaywithout, him.The house surgeon gave hini some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician irave him a mature; to takoeviry four houre, that in two days Wade was so much worse that, thodootora. stopped both . the. posdefi*P) and the mixture, A month passed, the ' poor fireman getting worso and worse, Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for' the next five months. He gave other medieinoa but not much relief. Nearly all the time Wado suffered great torture; ha digested nothing, throwing up all he ate, There was terrible pain in |tho bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache, Tho patient was now taking a mixture every four-hours, powders one after each meal to the food, operating pills one evory tiiglijlfc' and temperature pills twd each night tl» stop the cold sweats. If drugs could! cure him at all, Richard had an ides that he took enough to do it. the other hand pleurisy set in and the. doctors took ninety trntito, of matter from his right side, and then told himi lie was sure to die. -Five month more, rolled by,- and there was another change of visiting: physicians, The. new one gave Wade a mixture which he> -■ said mudihim tremble like a leaf omrec ' / At this crisis Wades Scotch bloodl asserted itself. He refused to standi any more dosing, and told the doctors; that if he must die he could die as well! without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on, '' i hie stomach, and lie,there for days. Ouc friend from Glas»ow was like a in a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will let him tell the rest of his experience in the words iu which he communicated it to the He says; "Wlion I was in this state a lady whom I had neyorseen carao to the hospital and talked with me. > Sho proved to'be an angol of meroy, for without her I should not now bo alive: She told' iiie of a medicine ealledl Mother Seigel's Ourativo Syrup,' iiud! brought mo a bottle next day, I started with it,.without cousultinc the doctor, and in onty a few days' tiw ham out of f bed catling forliam and eggs for breakfast, From that time, . keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave tho hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another :World and have no illness of any kind," The above facts are calmly andimpartially stated, and the reader undraw his own conclusion. We deem it . best to use no names, although Mr Wade gavo them in'his original deposition, His address is No. 244,' Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where, letters will reach him . • Kditor,